Is it ok for the majority of the population to have no awareness or education on the subject steroids because they are seen as immoral and have a negative stigma associated with them? This topic is becoming an extreme ethical issue because of the health risks it poses to users and as well as individuals who do not use. Everyday more and more people are being exposed to steroids without having the proper knowledge to make an educated and well informed decision on whether or not to use them. There are two different types of steroids and the both perform dramatically different functions in the human body, they are corticosteroids and anabolic-androgenic. Corticosteroids are frequently administered by doctors for a variety of symptoms and are
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By removing the tarnished name steroids have garnered it will allow more information to be available to these people to keep them safer and healthier. According the research of Stephen Wang in his article “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized”, “…as drug makers continue to develop undetectable substances and athletes engage in doping practices that allow them to avoid testing positive. Legalizing PEDs, he proposes, would reduce the health risks, deter criminal activity, and make more effective use of limited resources” (Wang). The majority of the world views steroids as a negative thing whether they consider it cheating in sports or because of the health risks it can cause its users. However, the athletes using them do not care as they will do anything and everything they can to win even at risk of their own lives. This usually involves purchasing illegal substances and self-administering themselves without proper guidance from a trained professional or doctor. Because one of the main reasons for the illegality of steroids is public perception of them being unethical, athletes have no option other than to use them secretively in order to stay competitive. In removing the ethical discussion from them anyone that chooses to use steroids will have the option to use them in a safer, more effective manner and in turn decrease the potential negative side …show more content…
When considering the morality of something the legality of it should never come in to play. In Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, King explains, “Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all" (6). Many times laws have been in place that are now considered unethical. For example, in the early United States history it was illegal for women to vote. It was also illegal for African Americans and White Americans to have integrated bathrooms and schools. However, now these laws are considered highly unethical. The same logic should be applied to the unethical view of anabolic steroids as whole. Just because they are currently illegal does not mean they should automatically be considered unethical. More information and education needs to be gathered before any moral judgment should take place. If society continues to consider anabolic steroids unethical because of their legality, great scientific advancement is potentially being
By removing the tarnished name steroids have garnered it will allow more information to be available to these people to keep them safer and healthier. According the research of Stephen Wang in his article “Performance-Enhancing Drugs Should Be Legalized”, “…as drug makers continue to develop undetectable substances and athletes engage in doping practices that allow them to avoid testing positive. Legalizing PEDs, he proposes, would reduce the health risks, deter criminal activity, and make more effective use of limited resources” (Wang). The majority of the world views steroids as a negative thing whether they consider it cheating in sports or because of the health risks it can cause its users. However, the athletes using them do not care as they will do anything and everything they can to win even at risk of their own lives. This usually involves purchasing illegal substances and self-administering themselves without proper guidance from a trained professional or doctor. Because one of the main reasons for the illegality of steroids is public perception of them being unethical, athletes have no option other than to use them secretively in order to stay competitive. In removing the ethical discussion from them anyone that chooses to use steroids will have the option to use them in a safer, more effective manner and in turn decrease the potential negative side …show more content…
When considering the morality of something the legality of it should never come in to play. In Martin Luther King’s “Letter From Birmingham Jail”, King explains, “Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all" (6). Many times laws have been in place that are now considered unethical. For example, in the early United States history it was illegal for women to vote. It was also illegal for African Americans and White Americans to have integrated bathrooms and schools. However, now these laws are considered highly unethical. The same logic should be applied to the unethical view of anabolic steroids as whole. Just because they are currently illegal does not mean they should automatically be considered unethical. More information and education needs to be gathered before any moral judgment should take place. If society continues to consider anabolic steroids unethical because of their legality, great scientific advancement is potentially being